million world class playground in the heart of san francisco. this is just really a big, community win and a celebration for us all. >> to learn more about the helen diller playground in dolores park, go to sfrecpark.org. >> well good morning, everyone and welcome. i'm mike co- hill president of the west bay regular alienate. this event will kickoff the construction of two new state of the arc earthquake save hospitals in san francisco. one hospital here on this site in the center of san francisco and a second hospital at the caesar chavez in the growing

neighborhoods of the southeast section of the city. today is a pivotal point in the history of the medical center and for the health care system in san francisco. for one hundred and 50 years cpmc has been providing citizens with the most advance mcavailable. with the construction of our two new hospitals we'll be in positional to continue to serve the medical needs of the residents of san francisco for decades to come. we also have with us the president of the board of supervisors david chiu and supervisor mar farrell. both supervisors along with david campos were the 3 who helped new york state the final all the time to move this project forward. we appreciate the dedication of each of you to final approval.

also, we can't precede without acknowledging one person who was vitality to the success of our project lou. he lead a series of very frank and positive productive discussion that helped to move forward this project and his help in this process and his service to the city of san francisco is appreciated. jude i didn't say here. she would and bralthd this project and helped guide itself internal process thank you very much jude i didn't were i want to thank dr. warren your leadership and commitment kept driving us to build two new world-class hospitals in san

francisco. thank you for keeping us on track. we're working very closely with city bills and the construction administration professional service academy to build hospital construction jobs. we're dedicated and committed to san francisco and look forward to working with all the trades to augment our construction crews and a begin those projects. member of our construction management team. the construction of our two hospitals is led by our contractor herself restraining order and our architect is smith group. we'll be working with subcontractor and consultants to this project. about our construction schedule and we have one. the demolition of this exciting i existing building began in

september that clears the way to bring down this structure so we're underway. the demolition starts in a couple of weeks. i'm sure everyone is looking forward to that the evacuation happened evidently months ago. the steep rising will be in june and july. the construction at the city attorney luke's will begin in february of 2015. both hospitals are scheduled to be opened in 20019 or sooner. we look forward to a successful project on time and budget with worker safety being our focus. we have mayor ed lee and mike

the san francisco trades council dr. mike and chief of staff at cpmc and mayor logan. mayor ed lee please step up to the podium (clapping.) thank you, very much for working with us again. this is a day we've looked forward to for quite some time. i know our community partners have worked really hard with our board of supervisors with lou girard to come together with our health officials and make an agreement that is right inform san francisco. i know this is the first of two announcements that we look forward to. this compass invaluable in the center of where a lot of activity are will have at least

a 3 hundred and 2 bed and we look forward to having a similar announcements on the st. luke's campus to create a service hospital there as well. i can't tell you you how excited we are and we'll reminder each other that the process has to be credited with the leadership that the board of supervisors had. i want to thank my colleagues there board president chiu and mark farrell and david campos urging their personal time as well as their time on the broadway board to lead the effort along with our office and ken rich who's working and lou interrad continues to make sure the communications are open. your colleagues will labor unavailable in all reporters.

as we're excited about getting the site going i want to make sure we signal as any other project that the workers safety also begins right now with the demolition and we want this site to be safe because it will be occupied by nurses and decreases working together while we build this we want every life to be safe. i want to signal to the community and i know good friends like randy are here because we saw the connection with had this very close commit community. we've gotten the first check under sutter that represents a healthy investment. housing, transportation, pedestrian safety, and, of course, the thousands of medical lives and a medi-cal and

hospital patient lives that will be improved because of the commitments that sutter and cpmc have made par you'll pause and maybe ask how did he do it all? we'll also remembered as complicated as it was every persevered whether it was sideboard lou our community leaders argue housing advocates our people next door and in the tenderloin or the people who are health experts. they all worked closely together with the sutter leadership to form an agreement an agreement as complicated as that was as a high commitment that unsaturate had to make it was a great

investment it was sensitive and strong. we have ever promise here this reflects all the values our city has put together and the process as complicated as it was it persevered. on behalf of everyone that's worked hard to get here. i want to thank again mark and warren and cpmc's leadership but everyone who sees the benefits into the future. in years to come you'll see a very good campus of mill professions serving us and take care of so many challenges. remember this was a combination

of a lot of good efforts by everybody. i'm so lucky to be the mayor here. thanks so much to everyone (clapping.) >> i'll introduce myself i'm michael with the trades council. we're happy this day has arrived. we have worked on this project forever. it would have about good a couple of years ago. what it means now is a real opportunity to bring san francisco into our trades and give them an reduction in those trades in a complicated project. hospital projects are more

demanding. the mechanic and electricity systems because hi critical. the structural systems that have to be hopeful sound have to withstand more in a hospital and the inspection is higher. we in the trades are exactly the folks to do this work. we have the volume on display everyday. we train our folks with a my competition. we're grateful to the city family mayor ed lee and supervisor farrell are supervisor campos and chu and cpmc in delivering us this project to build. i want to embarrass the guy in the crane this is vincent heel do a good job.

i want to have a round of plays for the workers who do this work (clapping.). thanks a lot >> good morning my name is michael. i'm the current chief of staff of the medical staff at cpmc. to mr. mayor and all invited guests. this is indeed a most men tuesday occasion. no one can deny the planning process has been ashus and they can't deny the outcome will be well worth the weight. i've been with the staff for

nearly 40 years. from the initial years from stanford hospital to pacific medical center to the combining of children's hospital pmc davis i didn't see and st. luke's we've kept to observe mission of providing the highest medical care in a compassion at manner to all citizens of this city. soon, we'll have not of providing such care inside a world-class institution that mergers the modern technology in putting the patient first. at the same time we'll meet the legislature mandatory to meet the service sound hospitals that will be ready to serve the bay

area xhusht should such a disaster happen. thank you for the opportunity to say thanks to a st. luke's in their rebuild project. they clearly understood the project for o who have dreamed of the hospital facilities they and their i patients deserve. as a chief of the staff and most probably in the future today is a wonderful day for me, my fell staff members and most importantly all the patients who will be cared for in your new and beautiful care centers. thank you (clapping.) good morning mayor

ed lee dr. browner and mr. co- hill and distinguished guests. i'm marilyn logan i'm the nurse manager of the medical unit at the st. luke's campus. it's truly an honor to be here and i'm very k350i69d we're moving forward with our project to build 20/20 hospitals in 0 san francisco. for the past 5 years i've worked at the pacific campus and at the st. luke's campus. our nurses are proud of the care we provide for appear patients think about how much more we'll be able to chaff with the new facilities with the new technology. our state and federal staff is

looking forward to the completion of this project because those hospitals will create a great environment for us. it will create a level of pride in the work we do. most importantly for our patients the new hospitals will bring a more pleasant healing environment and an improved experience of care. for our patients family we'll have a great assurance that their loved ones are receiving the best care possible for for our community the new hospital represents community pride. in my current position at st. luke's it will be uplifting for the community. st. luke's has long been held the center of healing with the long history of deep roots.

dr. i want to let you know we're proud to be that center of healing for the community and proud to be a member of the st. luke's. lastly to all involved in the cpmc project on behalf of all the nurses i wanted to extend our senility thanks for making this possible. thank you and have a wonderful day (clapping.) good morning. i'm warren brown the ceo of cpmc pr i honestly say there were many times i never thought i'd see this. and as i was driving here i was reminder of a little boy who

banked his head against a wall and he said it feels good when i stop. let me begin to thank the board of trustees who stuck with us through a lot of times when i would get up and explain why it was that things were just taking so long so bob we owe you a special gratitude (clapping.) i see many supporters who showed up at the hearings and committee meetings and testified about why we needed those hospitals. i want to thank you ail again. and want to thank grant dave i

didn't see who's our vice president at cpmc when the times would get tough and i would go to the fellows office and he'd encourage me. it's a great feeling to be here today (clapping) and i want to say and we intentionally had everyone he sitting in those chairs because the one thing that was never at issue was no one got up and said this is a buff building that needs to be preserved. i remember moving here and driving by this building so we won't miss you hotel or video only or whatever was around. we look forward and some of you said it will be pretty eras a

construction site as what was was right now. i thank you to everyone to my friend mike co- hill and the 2 amigos david chiu and campos and farrell and, of course, the staff for emancipation proclamation e helping us get to this day. you've ail visited back in 5 years to cut the ribbon. that's why we're here. thank you all for coming. thank you all for supporting - >> all right.

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>> hello, hello. let's gather now and start the mayor's hear all about dignitaries like you. what a beautiful sunny day i'm president of the board of supervisors of the chinatown community development center and welcome to this wonderful opening of that magnificently project. marilyn fighter fiery firebrand

that was mary helen rogers. i first met her when i was a that commissioner in the 1990s. i was parted of the first activist commission for the agency from the urban reluctant days to an agency that put affordable housing at its forefront. i want to recognize commissioner leroy king who's the long time lasting commissioner. whose heart has been in the western edition and i served with him a commissioner for many years and leroy is 98-year-old. thank you la roadway with all your years with the agency.

i think that everything that mary helen rogers figure out for abnormal housing and protection for those who are dispolice department because of what happened she was the true advocate for the affordable housing. i hope mary will be part of our new affordable housing for seniors. i'm glad this is being done under the item of mayor ed lee who's legacy he he's known as the housing mayor. he's done more than any mayor before him. he will speak later. i would also like to recognize the community advisory members.

thank you (clapping.) and the community development corporation is hear from reverend mckay and the director whitney thank you to you and to urban core and to the staff that developed this project and our unsung hero our property manager he's the person who's going to be operating this wonderful housing. he got the residents moved in and settled and finally, there's to the organizers of this event janet and the supervisor and other folks of urban core. >> now to introduce the e d of chinatown development center

who's passion is about reaching across neighborhoods and across races and the whole city. he does it with music and love our director of the chinatown reverend. wow. we've got a lot more reverend's. they were involved in the community outreach and we did pretty good but reverend where are you hiding rooend a.m. most brown. it's in the spirit of calculation we rebuttal this with the additional community. you all raise our hand if you've met mary. you you know why she - you know, this is like a feast i didn't community project.

we need to celebrate on this day. reverend brown townsend please come forward offering you're fine over there. i heard from reverend mccrepe he did a heck of a great job. we have supervisor and the mayor. the mayor is in a rush but reverend cal jones is something for green to give us the invocation >> i have a wonderful high school called balboa high school. >> we were in the same class but i couldn't play football lord have mercy i placed football and i'm praying pr it's a blessing to see you all here.

we're trying to make things happen. as i look at reverend brown and side third paint and we figured out if preachers can get together we can do things across it or this city. we must continue the work that's been doing. we need to work on housing but i have to work on my brothers and sisters coming out of the prison. we all did something that we should have gone to jail. but the grace of god and so that's it. so we got to continue we've got more work to do and we thank god.

reverend mcwhy a he's here. all right. that's good let's pray. god we thank you now as we come and celebrate this time together. first of all, lord we thank you important the great souls mary rogers lord she fought a good fight lord. many of us were complainant but she was there taking a stand and we finally, there's woke up to what should he was talking about pr not trying to be over 24 but trying to change the way what we leave and god the way she wanted us to live was to love everybody we thank you for this building and this building represent what mary studio for god please bless

us and the city we still have more needs many things are happening in our communities today that people need to all work together. goad let's celebrate and god you blessed this city in so many ways. we've got people coming all over the world let's continue to work properly. amino and we have a lot of african-american clergy and we're going to introduce now michael johnson with urban core. come on michael (clappin (clapping.)